SyFy Teaser: Shark! Tornado! ‘Sharknado’!!

What would summer be without another SyFy Channel schlocky original TV movie about sharks? In the lame tradition of Sharktopus comes this latest on July 11th, Sharknado, which is what happens when a tornado sucks thousands of sharks out of the ocean and hurls them around Los Angeles. Tara Reid and Ian Ziering star so you know it’s quality casting. Though Roger Corman does it better:

43 Comments

Sorry, SighFigh, but there’s no way I’m sitting through a commercial just to see the trailer for your Movie of the Week.

Alex • on Jul 4, 2013 6:42 am

SyFy should change it’s name to SCCN: Stupid Cheap Crap Network. All their made for TV movies and TV shows are low budget garbage.

Jinjeon • on Jul 4, 2013 7:34 am

What has happened to Tara Reid’s career? I remember when she was on her way to B-list, now she’s D-lister at best. Is it because of the all hard partying? But the thing is she was always a professional when working on set. She was never late, always on time. She was no Lindsay Lohan case. Shame cause she was talented.

tv guy • on Jul 4, 2013 7:42 am

SyFy did another great shark thriller “Red Water” a few years back with Lou Diamond Phillips and Kristy Swanson. Some how every once in a while, they will produce them just to see if anyone is paying attention.

fact checker • on Jul 8, 2013 1:16 am

Hey TV GUY get your facts straight – Red Water was made by TBS almost 10 years ago and truth be told was actually pretty good so save the b.s. for the Fox News website.

David Francis • on Jul 12, 2013 9:56 pm

My My, another fan of Fox. You are just jealous. Now you may go back to watching Al Jazeera.

Just Me • on Jul 4, 2013 8:08 am

Spoiler Alert: They lure the sharknado back to the Pacific by suspending Harvey Weinstein’s bloated body on a giant hook.

RPF • on Jul 4, 2013 8:10 am

The stuff (movies) on SyFy make The Blob with Steve McQueen look like Ben Hur in comparison. In the 60s they couldn’t even have gotten these things shown as a second feature at the drive in. Some SyFy programs are OK, just not their made for movies. Lost Girl comes to mind.

Mel • on Jul 6, 2013 12:40 pm

Agreed SyFy’s movies don’t even reach the level of drek. And the only credit you can give SyFy is the fact that they bought the rights for Lost Girl from Canada – it’s not even a SyFy show. I can’t really think of anything lately that I’ve liked produced by SyFy except for maybe Face Off. I really really wanted to like Defiance after all the hype, but after about 6 episodes I had to give up. Then I thought maybe the reboot of UK’s Primeval New World, again, NO. And Sinbad – I couldn’t sit through more than 1/2 an episode.

Mike Bay • on Jul 4, 2013 9:17 am

Looks about as interesting as Pacific Rim

sffan • on Jul 4, 2013 9:25 am

Meh. I’ll wait for Octoquake.

tom • on Jul 4, 2013 6:13 pm

Hey, that’s funny. Isn’t SYFY’s slogan “Imagine Greater”…? How is this network still on the air?

Jeff • on Jul 4, 2013 9:34 am

Which part of the word sharknado did you not understand? All the more scary because it could happen.

Icantbelieveitsnotbutter • on Jul 4, 2013 9:53 am

Is EPIC Pictures behind this? From the cinema masters who made BIG ASS SPIDER? When is someone at Sy Fy going to grow a pair?

Snarky • on Jul 4, 2013 10:04 am

For a second I thought it was April and that this was a prank….then cold reality set in. Wow. Awesome!

i give up • on Jul 4, 2013 11:06 am

this is an SNL sketch right?
this is from FUNNY OR DIE, right?
this isn’t real, right?
executives didn’t actually consider this material and say “Yes, this is what we will greenlight?”, right?
there aren’t actually other scripts out there that WEREN’T chosen over this, right?
this has to be the last script ever on the planet, right? so they had no choice but to make it, right?

chuckl • on Jul 4, 2013 11:11 am

Hey, what ever has to be done to keep Tara Reed off the street…….

Sam • on Jul 4, 2013 11:15 am

I personally can’t wait. I love these horribly bad movies. What better way to waste a day or to just veg out? The laugh I get from watching is totally worth it.

lethargic • on Jul 4, 2013 11:59 am

I tweeted this joke on July 2nd, 2010:

Here’s my pitch for a SyFy movie. Hurricane picks up a bunch of genetically altered super powered sharks and hits New Orleans: Sharkicane!

I think is grounds for a lawsuit, right?

Also the sequel was going to be Sharkicane vs Killer Bee-nado. If they end up making Sharknado vs Killer Bee-icane I’m really going to lose my mind!

• on Jul 4, 2013 5:06 pm

You should file a lawsuit your tweet is your copyrighted intellectual property and my guess is someone at Sy Fy saw it or another writer saw it and they stole it from you. Take them to court it will be a great lawsuit that you can win. Sue them for $25,000 and force them to testify what the origin of the idea was. You probably were ripped off.

Dave • on Jul 4, 2013 12:20 pm

These low budget movies are good fun to watch.

Shorester • on Jul 4, 2013 12:38 pm

I for one welcome our shark overlords. Is it too much to ask that a sentient race of super sharks powering a tornado with their extra-sensory perception be honored for their sheer dignity? The closest I’ve ever come to flying in a tornado is when I accidentally set a Japanese toilet on ‘maximum enema.’

Myron Falwell • on Jul 4, 2013 1:08 pm

This coming from a network that let MST3K wither and die on the vine.

Peacock Girl • on Jul 4, 2013 1:19 pm

GOD BLESS SyFy!

zee • on Jul 4, 2013 1:24 pm

Are you sure that is not just a spoof? I honestly cannot believe that is a real movie.

Lars • on Jul 4, 2013 1:43 pm

I don’t get why everyone’s complaining. I’m happy to see oddball exploitation getting made and released. Is this really any worse than WWZ or Lone Ranger?

Mr Boofinnk • on Jul 4, 2013 1:43 pm

At the end of the clip is says “imagine greater”

you know what? I do, but then this is what they come up with.

and

this looks like straight to netflix garbage the watch instantly queue is stuffed with.